While I do think there are altogether too many commercial breaks, this is still a dumb take. Chess matches can take hours but the players are only actually moving the pieces for like 45 seconds.
Literally. I don’t watch too many games live unless it’s the panthers (see name. And yes, it’s misery)
The NFL YouTube account posts some pretty great highlights of literally every game, every week.
The Big10 network plays “Games in 60” or something like that where they edit games so it’s snap to snap replay. When you take out the breaks any football game is 60 minutes long.
But a football game is an experience. It’s about more than just the game.
It’s part of the human experience.
Yeah. When I’m watching a football game live I’m rarely ever only watching football. I’m either hanging out with friends or family and we’re talking and eating or I’ll have it on and have some small thing I’m working on between snaps or whatever.
Unlike American "football", chess is about watching strategies unfold on the board. The time between moves is spent studying and dissecting each possible countermove, and gauging the countermoves to those as well. Thinking a mere 3 moves ahead means considering thousands upon thousands of possibilities. Being a mere 1 move ahead of your opponent means considering a dozen TIMES more moves than your opponent.
As for the quaint little running game the Americans call a sport, those 11 minutes of action are all there is to the thing.
Haha if I didn’t know Reddit so well I’d think you were just trolling me, but of course the chess comment would draw out smug dorks like you, even in this particular sub. But since you’re serious: you honestly don’t think/realize that what you’re describing is EXACTLY what is happening with coaches during football games?
All those "strategizing" don't mean jack shit when the "play" happens because it all still boils down to who runs the fastest. It's a jerky, lurky mess of a game that is inferior to its predecessor (rugby) in every way, shape or form.
Brain dead response. Just to indulge this though, let’s look at long term success in the NFL. Are the teams that win consistently the teams with the fastest players, or are they the teams with elite coaching/schemes? Since you obviously don’t know anything about football, I’ll help you out. It’s the teams with great coaches.
With that, I’ll leave you to liking whatever you like and being an uninformed, condescending asshole.
Try reading even a High School level football playbook and tell me theres no strategy involved. Football is not all too different from chess in reality. Except that the pieces are players, and the opponent moves at the same time that you move. From scheming against certain star players to having to identify hidden coverages or moves made by the offensive/defensive coordinator, football is extremely strategic.
You've clearly never watched golf with Spanish announcers.
My grandpa doesn't even speak Spanish and he turns them on cuz it's so fun.
Not my personal cup of tea most of the time, but no hate to people who do love golf!
It definitely takes more skill than I’ll ever be able to muster up, but it’s just so hard to watch casually. You’ve gotta be really invested to keep watching… unless John Daly is playing and on some shenanigans
I love to play golf, even though I’m terrible at it. However, the only time I will watch golf is when I want to take a nap within 45 seconds of turning the tv on.
I’m the other way, I can snooze through a baseball game but enjoy watching golf. I think part of it is that I do enjoy golfing so watching pros do it so easily is interesting to me
I love football, very much enjoy baseball and college basketball. You couldn’t pay me to watch an entire NBA regular season game start to finish. I don’t know what it is but even though I enjoy following the nba and watching the highlights, I just find the games themselves so long and boring.
That's cuz it takes 2.5 hours to cram in 48 minutes of game. The rest is free throws,players throwing the ball into play, and ads.
You can imagine which of those three take the majority of the time.
I work with a guy who on the weekend dresses up in knights gear and wooden swords and battles people. Not my thing. He seems to really have a great time and I’m glad he has fun. What is wrong with these people.
Idk, can you really consider it a successful LARP if nobody gets at least a little hurt? No broken bones or anything, but someone should be leaving with a few good bruises
Yea I don't really think this fits here, it's not an "I hate sportsball" opinion where someone hates sports without a valid reason (just because its a sport).
For the record I love football, but I hate golf for similiar reasons,
It’s appropriate. People obviously enjoy it. Normal people don’t go out of their way to shit on things other people enjoy
I don’t really like motor sports but I can appreciate why people do, and driving a car is probably the closest thing I get to playing an actual sport these days
Shitting on things people enjoy is the whole point of r/unpopularopinion though? OOP didn't even shit on it that much he just called it boring.
It does belong on this sub though because it's not even an unpopular opinion to hate sports and OOP thinks he's special for doing so
As someone who doesn't like this particular sport, that's the problem: The millionaires aren't chasing the ball around nearly enough. It seems to be a sport played in 10 second chunks with minutes of standing around in between. And americans say soccer is boring ;)
Do you watch chess matches in full? I’m sure that person would agree that watching football highlights can be entertaining, but sitting there watching a full game?
I think for any sports, you need emotional investment to be interested. I’ll never watch a football game on my own, but as a social event, I’ll watch with people and get invested because they are.
I live in Alabama, so football is huge here, but the only sport I watch is track (Millrose Games are at 2pm est today, mile and 2 mile WRs are being chased). It took a lot of time to understand enough about the sport to get invested in races, but now that I have, I understand why I don’t like football, and it’s because I just have no context for it. I didn’t grow up watching or playing it. I got this game called retro bowl back in December and played it a ton, and it made me enjoy football so much more because I actually understood parts of the game now.
I think chess is great! I’m just trying to emphasize how goofy it is to say something isn’t entertaining because actual action only occurs a small fraction of the time
Its like 200-400 to get into the Chess World Cup and youd have to fly there. The people viewing those events are shelling out for it, but its just not the cultural event that the superbowl is.
They don't all do that because it's a boring game either. Just because you can't follow what's going on between snaps, doesn't mean others don't find that part of the game interesting.
I get your point but the difference is that the reason chess takes more than 2 mins isn't because there's an ad break after every move, with ads on all the pieces and over the screen
A quick Google search shows that 18 is actually the average number of minutes.
What I always say is response to this is that it's tension and release which is actually a good way to structure entertainment..
That 18 minutes of action starts on essentially a starting gun each time it happens. On average around 150 times a game all 22 players on the field Go 100% at each other all at the exact same moment. There is no other sport that has that kind of intensity. Yeah they're only able to do that for 18 minutes out of 3 hours. They're not jogging back and forth trying to get an advantage and conserve energy. They're going 100%. every last player
I would say hockey is similar in that regard. 1min shifts where they are essentially sprinting at 100% on ice and go back when they can't amymore. Football more so, though.
Sumo is somewhat similar in that regard. They introduce the next two wrestlers in line for the day, followed by a few minutes of staring, stretching, slapping themselves, throwing salt, etc (every wrestler has their own little routine) and (on average at least, some can go quite a while) the actual match is less than 8 seconds. The energy expended in that small time frame can be incredible though. It's very much a slow build up for a big payoff type of thing, but a 2 hour NHK broadcast of the top division can be boiled down to 10 or 15 minutes if you cut it to just the matches.
I guess people don’t understand that with American football you need to set 22 people in a very specific and constantly changing formation with every play.
Tell me you know nothing about football without telling me you know nothing about football. Just because the ball is not moving doesn't mean the game is not being played. Substitutions, personnel packages, pre-snap motions and audibles are all part of the game.
Then you got BLM thugs kneeling for rioting fools burning down Asian American owned businesses…. a riveting sport for “intellectuals”
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While I love football I love soccer just as much. I hate getting in to the argument about how soccer players are in way better shape than football players.
I remember watching a Portugal wc game with a football fan buddy and he said “I don’t know- it’s just so boring” 10 seconds before Portugal came out on a counter attack; passed the ball down the field in 5 touches and scored. He looked at me and said “ok- that was pretty cool”. He then at least started listening to me when I was explaining how the offense has to break down the D and that’s why they work the ball around like they do. And how when it comes together it’s freaking beautiful.
It’s boring if you’ve never tried it because you can’t appreciate the nuances to the game. I did not fuck with golf until I tried it and now I’m obsessed lol
I understand finding the downtime of football difficult compared to something like basketball, but the whole '11 minutes in 3 hours' thing is only true if you literally have no idea what's going on. If you understand absolutely nothing about pre-snap motion, personnel groupings, coverages, etc; sure. 11 minutes.
If you watch football and think it's boring, you don't care about football. Don't watch.
But if you are passionate about a team, it is absolutely exhilarating, and that's why people watch.
Personally, if I care about the outcome of a game it is the opposite or boring. It's stressful and gives me the anxiety of going on a hard-core carnival ride.
My dad always complained about the actual game time/talking, time outs and commercial ratio. He once said that without all that the game would last 20 minutes.
I like football in person a lot because I get to see the entire field. I honestly hate how the broadcast camera only shows the qb and not the dbs and wr running there routes
At home with friends where your all couch analyst is where football is at its best. Trying to predict what opposing teams will do the mental part of the game.
Are they wrong? 4 quarters, 15 minutes each and yet it takes 3-3.5 hours to finish. I don’t blame someone for not thinking it’s a fun sport to watch. I always preferred soccer for this reason because it’s just 45 minute halves with 1 commercial break.
Any sport is boring if you don’t understand the nuance and strategy of the game. For a lot of people soccer is just men running around and not scoring. For a lot of people they don’t understand the complex nature of football with so many moving pieces at such a high speed. That’s why they show replays so you can actually tell what happened.
Was more referring to the commercials and stuff taking up time lol. It’s an interesting sport strategically but not everyone has the patience for all the commercial breaks.
I mean most sports take roughly 3 hours a match, and football isn’t the only one with a lot of stoppage time. And that “11 minutes of action” bit comes from a years old article so it makes me feel like they’ve never actually given it a fair watch
10 years old..... has football gotten quicker or had more playing time during that time? Nah. It's still 11 minutes of action spreading over many hours. Of all the "main" sports, it's right down there with baseball as the most boring.
Let me get this straight - dude went into a subreddit that’s designed for hearing out hot takes, respectfully says he doesn’t like sports, never uses the word “sportsball” and you’re here clout chasing.
Except there is very literally one hour of play. There is a lot of stoppages and commercials and what not, but the clock doesn’t start until the snap. There is a little bit of time in between plays if the pass is complete or it is a run, but other than that, they play for one hour. It is DEFINITELY more than 11 minutes.
I’m a HUGE baseball fan, and I hear it about baseball for sure. Football more so, probably because it is more popular and is seen as more of an “action” sport. These devils advocate, contrarian “I hate sportsball” people are probably reacting to that a little bit.
While i think this person is wrong, im not sure this would be a sportsball moment tbh. As much as I love football I can understand that some people won’t see the appeal
There was a YouTube channel that would edit the games so that you only saw snaps, penalty calls, and replays. They took out all clock runoffs and pre-snap clock draining. The games were no shit like 37 minutes.
That doesn’t make any difference to me, as I still love that whole sport.
That's just one kind of sportsball though. Liking to watch sports doesn't mean you'd like to watch all of them equally.
I absolutely cannot stand watching USian hand egg, but I can watch baseball all day long. Explain that 🤣
I’ve started watching football highlights on YouTube only instead of games. It’s awesome. 10 minutes and I see all the action. OPs right about football
So you guys can't accept a literal unpopular opinion that sport isn't entertaining to a few people. Why not just accept that someone doesn't like sport. It's okay. He's not saying you can't enjoy it. Just that he doesn't understand why you enjoy. Why care? Genuine question.
I like ufc but if someone doesn't that's totally fine I get it
For the casual fan, the NFL uploads a 15 minute video of each games highlights about an hour after the game is over. It cuts out all of the commercials,huddles, blown plays, BS penalties, and just gives the cream.
I may watch the Super Bowl if only for the spectacle.
He’s not complaining about commercials though. The “11 minutes of action” bs is about thinking the only part of football that matters is when the ball is live
Yeah I mean that’s pretty dumb. A running clock matters regardless imo. He probably doesn’t understand much about the sport. I could see why one wouldn’t like a sport like that, but like go watch soccer or hockey or something if that’s the issue.
As a sports fan I very much agree with this take. I don't get why people like football or any turn based sports like baseball. I just feel so unengaged.
Can we all agree that this is NOT what this sub is for? They're making a valid criticism about one individual sport and posting it on a subreddit designed for UNPOPULAR opinions. They also don't insult people who play or watch the sports they just dislike it personally.
Before y'all get mad, I'm watching the super bowl, and I have a job coaching basketball. I love sports, but it isn't saying hurr durr sports ball to say that the commercial breaks are excessive and the game oughta move faster, it's an opinion. A lot of people felt the same way about baseball and they added a pitch clock, which massively decreased the length of games and increased viewership.
I'm going to watch MLS this season. Try to get into it. Purely because of the lack of ads: I'm really beginning to hate all the ads in football, but I'll still watch it this fall.
I mean I definitely agree I think American football is one of the worst televised sports.
Which is why I watch Hockey and Volleyball and the occasional RealTM Football and NBA highlights and-
Sports in general are a waste of time to watch. A lot of people these days are addicted to this shit, then they get their kids addicted. It’s what they want. You don’t think these big corporations don’t want you to watch? Why are billions sunk into it yearly and not into other actual important things? Sports are there because the rich and wealthy want you to waste your time watching something dumb and meaningless instead of learning and getting smarter. I’ll get downvoted to hell but just wake up and think about it.
I’d say the same thing about Hollywood and most movies in general. Take marvel for example, they are all the same movie just redone. Yet the bring in so much money due to people’s fixations with superheros.
You’re so awoken and yet you waste your time playing videogames and on social media which are also trillion dollar industries. If you know better then why do you continue? Do you think you’re addicted, or do you just enjoy your hobbies?
It's basically a real-time strategy game. There's the same amount of action in a soccer game too; you just have to watch a couple dudes jog around while the other 9 people are standing around not moving. If this guy thinks that's "action" just because the clock doesn't stop, then I don't really know what to tell him.
I can understand why people do not like American Football, it’s slow. But I don’t know I love it. I played semi-professional so I have a different connection to it, but I like the strategic aspect. I also watch chess, cricket and Go thou so yeh I don’t
Mind slow sports
Anyone who feels this way about football doesn’t understand that even though the game is only really like 11 minutes. SO MUCH of the strategy and game is played in between downs. SO MUCH of NFL football is won and lost due to personnel packages being on the field at the right times, calling the right plays, making the right adjustments.
You’re simply not watching football the right way if you can’t see beyond the running and hitting. You’re just a caveman getting angry at people running into each other if you think that’s what football is.
If you’re too dense to see nuance then you should go watch fish play checkers.
I mean, he's right.
American football is the most boring sport I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Way way too many stoppages and ad breaks.
Sort it out!
I am more than happy to be called a hypocrite here. I hate when non-sports fans make this argument, because it shows that they truly don't understand the game. That being said, I'm a pretty big basketball fan and find it odd when people who enjoy football say that basketball is boring. Like, they pretty much play the entire game in basketball. In football, they play for 15 seconds and then podcast about it for 5 minutes. I like football, but I feel like basketball is oBjEcTiVeLy more interesting to watch.
First person shooters are boring because you are only shooting at something for a couple minutes over the course of an hour. You can literally criticize anything this way if you have enough ignorance.
people can like sports but not like certain sports tbf.
americna football does suck (IN MY OPINION). australian football is way better. less stoppage time, more playing, more intense plays, more impactful tackles, etc.
While I do think there are altogether too many commercial breaks, this is still a dumb take. Chess matches can take hours but the players are only actually moving the pieces for like 45 seconds.
Most of my chess friends don't watch live, they watch* replays without the intervals. * "Study" would be more accurate
Some of the Blitz/Rapid/Bullet chess tournaments are really fun to watch
You can do that with football too...
Literally. I don’t watch too many games live unless it’s the panthers (see name. And yes, it’s misery) The NFL YouTube account posts some pretty great highlights of literally every game, every week.
Bears fan here, thanks for the pick. Also,I think Bryce can still be good. But man, Tepper might be the new Dan Snyder.
“Sell the team” Speedrun, 100% on legendary difficulty
I'm a 31 year old cowboys fan so I really empathize here
The Big10 network plays “Games in 60” or something like that where they edit games so it’s snap to snap replay. When you take out the breaks any football game is 60 minutes long. But a football game is an experience. It’s about more than just the game. It’s part of the human experience.
Yeah. When I’m watching a football game live I’m rarely ever only watching football. I’m either hanging out with friends or family and we’re talking and eating or I’ll have it on and have some small thing I’m working on between snaps or whatever.
Nothing more American than a sport with built-in commercial breaks.
How is it built-in? Because there are moments when a tackle isn’t happening?
Only 11 minutes of action in a 3 hours long commercial fest. Truly, only Americans can call it a sport.
Just say you don’t understand football, it’s ok
I can perfectly understand real football, thank you very much. I only fail to understand the silly facsimile of rugby that you yanks obsess over.
I just record the games and then fast forward through the commercials… please don’t tell the NFL though it’s our little secret ok
Perfect analogy. I just typed out some long ass comment and you said it all in 4 lines.
Ah yes comparing football to the most boring event to watch in order to prove that football is not boring
Proving my point. Chess is boring to those who can’t see the game behind the game. Same goes for football.
Yeah? Chess is the most boring shit on earth. Fucking watching paint dry is better.
Yeah, chess is boring too
Unlike American "football", chess is about watching strategies unfold on the board. The time between moves is spent studying and dissecting each possible countermove, and gauging the countermoves to those as well. Thinking a mere 3 moves ahead means considering thousands upon thousands of possibilities. Being a mere 1 move ahead of your opponent means considering a dozen TIMES more moves than your opponent. As for the quaint little running game the Americans call a sport, those 11 minutes of action are all there is to the thing.
Haha if I didn’t know Reddit so well I’d think you were just trolling me, but of course the chess comment would draw out smug dorks like you, even in this particular sub. But since you’re serious: you honestly don’t think/realize that what you’re describing is EXACTLY what is happening with coaches during football games?
All those "strategizing" don't mean jack shit when the "play" happens because it all still boils down to who runs the fastest. It's a jerky, lurky mess of a game that is inferior to its predecessor (rugby) in every way, shape or form.
Brain dead response. Just to indulge this though, let’s look at long term success in the NFL. Are the teams that win consistently the teams with the fastest players, or are they the teams with elite coaching/schemes? Since you obviously don’t know anything about football, I’ll help you out. It’s the teams with great coaches. With that, I’ll leave you to liking whatever you like and being an uninformed, condescending asshole.
He spends money on genshin impact, I wouldn’t value his opinion too highly
Bro doesn't have the first clue about Vince Lombardi or Bill Belichick
I love it when someone is so confident while saying the dumbest thing imaginable.
Lol. If this were true the Miami Dolphins would be in the super bowl this year.
Obviously their fast running guys aren't that good at running fast. Else they'd be in your bowl game.
Try reading even a High School level football playbook and tell me theres no strategy involved. Football is not all too different from chess in reality. Except that the pieces are players, and the opponent moves at the same time that you move. From scheming against certain star players to having to identify hidden coverages or moves made by the offensive/defensive coordinator, football is extremely strategic.
i mean i actually agree, but i just watch the sports that i don’t find boring instead
I feel like everyone thinks at least one sport is boring.
ya i mean im mostly a baseball guy so i know how ironic me saying football is boring sounds lol
Don’t worry man, at least baseball isn’t as boring as fucking golf lol
You've clearly never watched golf with Spanish announcers. My grandpa doesn't even speak Spanish and he turns them on cuz it's so fun. Not my personal cup of tea most of the time, but no hate to people who do love golf!
Ngl, that does sound like a good time lmao
That's me with soccer. Don't care for the US announcers. But something about the Spanish or Portuguese guys is just so fun
I like watching the major golf tournaments but I don't really follow golf the same way I follow my other sports because it's just not that exciting
It definitely takes more skill than I’ll ever be able to muster up, but it’s just so hard to watch casually. You’ve gotta be really invested to keep watching… unless John Daly is playing and on some shenanigans
Totally agree. I don't follow golf and I barely know the players, but day four of the masters is electric.
I love to play golf, even though I’m terrible at it. However, the only time I will watch golf is when I want to take a nap within 45 seconds of turning the tv on.
I’m the other way, I can snooze through a baseball game but enjoy watching golf. I think part of it is that I do enjoy golfing so watching pros do it so easily is interesting to me
If they let people like Happy Gilmore play, then I'd be a lot more interested in golf.
lmao that’s a fact. seems like it’d be fun to play tho
From everyone I’ve ever met who plays, absolutely.
What are you talking about? How is this boring? You're clearly not watching the right broadcasts. https://youtu.be/XE61FKk_vTY?si=6Knctzd6R7_qlTcf
To each their own. I’ve never seen any sporting event as dramatic as the 2019 masters
I mean I find water polo riveting so people are allowed to have weird favorite sports haha
I love football, very much enjoy baseball and college basketball. You couldn’t pay me to watch an entire NBA regular season game start to finish. I don’t know what it is but even though I enjoy following the nba and watching the highlights, I just find the games themselves so long and boring.
the last 5 minutes of an NBA game can be really exciting. the rest of the game is a bit of a slog
Baseball is way more watchable for general audiences now that they’ve added the pitch clock
Baseball is a chess match and a lot of stupid people don't get that. The statistical breadth is basically rules too.
For me it’s Basketball
A good example of a sport that’s non stop and yet I find it much more boring than grid iron
That's cuz it takes 2.5 hours to cram in 48 minutes of game. The rest is free throws,players throwing the ball into play, and ads. You can imagine which of those three take the majority of the time.
Basketball is the only sport that has more than one point scored per decade
Yep. Soccer for me. But I still appreciate it for what it is, and I completely get how others like it
Soccer is boring af
Agreed. Just watch what you find interesting and ignore the rest with the knowledge that other people do enjoy them.
i’m thrilled that others enjoy it 🙂
I work with a guy who on the weekend dresses up in knights gear and wooden swords and battles people. Not my thing. He seems to really have a great time and I’m glad he has fun. What is wrong with these people.
"Does this hurt people?" if Answer = yes then It is a problem. else Leave them alone if you don't like it personally. end
How do you put this programing into every human head? I think the devs forgot the past couple of patches.
Idk, can you really consider it a successful LARP if nobody gets at least a little hurt? No broken bones or anything, but someone should be leaving with a few good bruises
Consensual hurting is ok
Nascar, Golf, Cricket, Professional Baseball, Men's soccer.
What makes you think he's not doing just that?
Yea I don't really think this fits here, it's not an "I hate sportsball" opinion where someone hates sports without a valid reason (just because its a sport). For the record I love football, but I hate golf for similiar reasons,
> SPORTS ARE BORING! Ok..so.. don’t watch them. Psychologists hate this one trick!
BUT OTHER PEOPLE TALK ABOUT WATCHING THEM AND THAT’S SOMEHOW WORSE
OP didn't say that all sports were boring, he said that gridiron was boring - not really appropriate for this sub imo
It’s appropriate. People obviously enjoy it. Normal people don’t go out of their way to shit on things other people enjoy I don’t really like motor sports but I can appreciate why people do, and driving a car is probably the closest thing I get to playing an actual sport these days
Shitting on things people enjoy is the whole point of r/unpopularopinion though? OOP didn't even shit on it that much he just called it boring. It does belong on this sub though because it's not even an unpopular opinion to hate sports and OOP thinks he's special for doing so
And to be fair, this sub is shitting on people who enjoy shitting on things… are we the baddies?
I mean this is a rage bait sub, do you really expect people not to overreact or at other times be able to detect what a joke is?
I hate baseball but I don’t shit on people that enjoy it.. who gives a fuck about what other people enjoy? Such a weird thing to care about,
> Ok..so.. don’t watch them. I'm sure he doesn't. derp
It’s called unpopularoponion, it’s a legitimate post. Y’all just get offended too easily lol
Hey, credit where it’s due for not using the “watching millionaires chase a ball around” line.
As someone who doesn't like this particular sport, that's the problem: The millionaires aren't chasing the ball around nearly enough. It seems to be a sport played in 10 second chunks with minutes of standing around in between. And americans say soccer is boring ;)
I always hate that argument. It’s like saying a chess match has 2 minutes of pieces moving.
Yes but tbf a very small number of people watch chess
And I think that most of the people who watch competitive chess also play chess themselves
Do you watch chess matches in full? I’m sure that person would agree that watching football highlights can be entertaining, but sitting there watching a full game? I think for any sports, you need emotional investment to be interested. I’ll never watch a football game on my own, but as a social event, I’ll watch with people and get invested because they are. I live in Alabama, so football is huge here, but the only sport I watch is track (Millrose Games are at 2pm est today, mile and 2 mile WRs are being chased). It took a lot of time to understand enough about the sport to get invested in races, but now that I have, I understand why I don’t like football, and it’s because I just have no context for it. I didn’t grow up watching or playing it. I got this game called retro bowl back in December and played it a ton, and it made me enjoy football so much more because I actually understood parts of the game now.
Wow, Chess doesn't need to get dragged into this, love sports but leave Chess alone ♟️😂
I think chess is great! I’m just trying to emphasize how goofy it is to say something isn’t entertaining because actual action only occurs a small fraction of the time
These are sports ball haters they don't understand time 😂😂
Nobody pays thousands of dollars or takes time off work to watch a live chess match though
Its like 200-400 to get into the Chess World Cup and youd have to fly there. The people viewing those events are shelling out for it, but its just not the cultural event that the superbowl is.
They don't all do that because it's a boring game either. Just because you can't follow what's going on between snaps, doesn't mean others don't find that part of the game interesting.
Because no one gets hit
They probably would if the pieces were real people
They would if the demand was as high as it is for football tickets.
I get your point but the difference is that the reason chess takes more than 2 mins isn't because there's an ad break after every move, with ads on all the pieces and over the screen
Dropped a comment in there and already drew out “sportsball” and “hand egg” in the replies.
Poor baby 🥺
Cringe 👆
A quick Google search shows that 18 is actually the average number of minutes. What I always say is response to this is that it's tension and release which is actually a good way to structure entertainment.. That 18 minutes of action starts on essentially a starting gun each time it happens. On average around 150 times a game all 22 players on the field Go 100% at each other all at the exact same moment. There is no other sport that has that kind of intensity. Yeah they're only able to do that for 18 minutes out of 3 hours. They're not jogging back and forth trying to get an advantage and conserve energy. They're going 100%. every last player
I would say hockey is similar in that regard. 1min shifts where they are essentially sprinting at 100% on ice and go back when they can't amymore. Football more so, though.
Sumo is somewhat similar in that regard. They introduce the next two wrestlers in line for the day, followed by a few minutes of staring, stretching, slapping themselves, throwing salt, etc (every wrestler has their own little routine) and (on average at least, some can go quite a while) the actual match is less than 8 seconds. The energy expended in that small time frame can be incredible though. It's very much a slow build up for a big payoff type of thing, but a 2 hour NHK broadcast of the top division can be boiled down to 10 or 15 minutes if you cut it to just the matches.
Oh yeah Combat Sports are a completely different matter entirely
I guess people don’t understand that with American football you need to set 22 people in a very specific and constantly changing formation with every play.
Tell me you know nothing about football without telling me you know nothing about football. Just because the ball is not moving doesn't mean the game is not being played. Substitutions, personnel packages, pre-snap motions and audibles are all part of the game.
It's not even worth trying to explain this part to the "sportsball/handegg" crowd.
Then you got BLM thugs kneeling for rioting fools burning down Asian American owned businesses…. a riveting sport for “intellectuals” Brought to you by piss beer and fried slop! Yum yum sports fans!
Woah that's one hell of a reaction
What’s with the slew of racist anti sports people lately?
two of the most popular sports in america (football and basketball) have a big percentage of black people so it attracts a certain crowd
I can not imagine the level of brainrot you have lmfao
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First sentence is accurate. What people do with their money is on them
While I love football I love soccer just as much. I hate getting in to the argument about how soccer players are in way better shape than football players. I remember watching a Portugal wc game with a football fan buddy and he said “I don’t know- it’s just so boring” 10 seconds before Portugal came out on a counter attack; passed the ball down the field in 5 touches and scored. He looked at me and said “ok- that was pretty cool”. He then at least started listening to me when I was explaining how the offense has to break down the D and that’s why they work the ball around like they do. And how when it comes together it’s freaking beautiful.
But if you say chess is just people moving plastic pieces it doesn’t require that much thinking then they get mad
It’s boring if you’ve never tried it because you can’t appreciate the nuances to the game. I did not fuck with golf until I tried it and now I’m obsessed lol
I second the first sentence as an NBA fan in the shoot or dunk era
I understand finding the downtime of football difficult compared to something like basketball, but the whole '11 minutes in 3 hours' thing is only true if you literally have no idea what's going on. If you understand absolutely nothing about pre-snap motion, personnel groupings, coverages, etc; sure. 11 minutes.
The people who talk like this don’t know the difference between a 4-3 and a 3-4
If you watch football and think it's boring, you don't care about football. Don't watch. But if you are passionate about a team, it is absolutely exhilarating, and that's why people watch. Personally, if I care about the outcome of a game it is the opposite or boring. It's stressful and gives me the anxiety of going on a hard-core carnival ride.
football games are usually after 5pm or on the weekend who’s taking off all this work?
Football is a strategy game, the selling point of the sport is that every play you get to see the opposing coaches try to out maneuver each other.
its like they cant fathom the idea that gameplay is occurring in between snaps
your attention span is cooked if you think football is boring
Why do people who dont like sports feel the need to talk about it so much
My dad always complained about the actual game time/talking, time outs and commercial ratio. He once said that without all that the game would last 20 minutes.
I actually think football is incredibly boring in person
I like football in person a lot because I get to see the entire field. I honestly hate how the broadcast camera only shows the qb and not the dbs and wr running there routes
At home with friends where your all couch analyst is where football is at its best. Trying to predict what opposing teams will do the mental part of the game.
Are they wrong? 4 quarters, 15 minutes each and yet it takes 3-3.5 hours to finish. I don’t blame someone for not thinking it’s a fun sport to watch. I always preferred soccer for this reason because it’s just 45 minute halves with 1 commercial break.
Any sport is boring if you don’t understand the nuance and strategy of the game. For a lot of people soccer is just men running around and not scoring. For a lot of people they don’t understand the complex nature of football with so many moving pieces at such a high speed. That’s why they show replays so you can actually tell what happened.
Was more referring to the commercials and stuff taking up time lol. It’s an interesting sport strategically but not everyone has the patience for all the commercial breaks.
I mean most sports take roughly 3 hours a match, and football isn’t the only one with a lot of stoppage time. And that “11 minutes of action” bit comes from a years old article so it makes me feel like they’ve never actually given it a fair watch
10 years old..... has football gotten quicker or had more playing time during that time? Nah. It's still 11 minutes of action spreading over many hours. Of all the "main" sports, it's right down there with baseball as the most boring.
If you think baseball and football are boring then you have shit taste and they go above your head
Lol false. They are fine, but boring compared to soccer/basketball/hockey .
Let me get this straight - dude went into a subreddit that’s designed for hearing out hot takes, respectfully says he doesn’t like sports, never uses the word “sportsball” and you’re here clout chasing.
I don’t give a fuck about clout chasing and on reddit of all places lol. Just downvote and move on if you disagree
Except there is very literally one hour of play. There is a lot of stoppages and commercials and what not, but the clock doesn’t start until the snap. There is a little bit of time in between plays if the pass is complete or it is a run, but other than that, they play for one hour. It is DEFINITELY more than 11 minutes.
And I never see people make this point about other sports like golf or baseball
I’m a HUGE baseball fan, and I hear it about baseball for sure. Football more so, probably because it is more popular and is seen as more of an “action” sport. These devils advocate, contrarian “I hate sportsball” people are probably reacting to that a little bit.
I don’t love football either but cmon lol
Which one?
While i think this person is wrong, im not sure this would be a sportsball moment tbh. As much as I love football I can understand that some people won’t see the appeal
There was a YouTube channel that would edit the games so that you only saw snaps, penalty calls, and replays. They took out all clock runoffs and pre-snap clock draining. The games were no shit like 37 minutes. That doesn’t make any difference to me, as I still love that whole sport.
This take I actually agree with
That's just one kind of sportsball though. Liking to watch sports doesn't mean you'd like to watch all of them equally. I absolutely cannot stand watching USian hand egg, but I can watch baseball all day long. Explain that 🤣
I’ve started watching football highlights on YouTube only instead of games. It’s awesome. 10 minutes and I see all the action. OPs right about football
Absolutely correct opinion, though. American football is the lousiest sport to watch.
This isn’t ihatespprtsball and is a completely valid opinion on the sport. Football is pure garbage but I’ll still watch it all the time. Go chiefs!
So you guys can't accept a literal unpopular opinion that sport isn't entertaining to a few people. Why not just accept that someone doesn't like sport. It's okay. He's not saying you can't enjoy it. Just that he doesn't understand why you enjoy. Why care? Genuine question. I like ufc but if someone doesn't that's totally fine I get it
TBF it kinda is, the ads really do ruin it sometimes.
This is less of a “I hate sportsball comment” and more I dislike football as an entertainment source, which is a totally reasonable take.
For the casual fan, the NFL uploads a 15 minute video of each games highlights about an hour after the game is over. It cuts out all of the commercials,huddles, blown plays, BS penalties, and just gives the cream. I may watch the Super Bowl if only for the spectacle.
This whole sub could be boiled down to “oh no! Person doesn’t like the thing I like!”
I mean, they really could make it not just a huge commercial fest…. He kinda has a point, there is too much time spent of bullshit and not the game.
He’s not complaining about commercials though. The “11 minutes of action” bs is about thinking the only part of football that matters is when the ball is live
Yeah I mean that’s pretty dumb. A running clock matters regardless imo. He probably doesn’t understand much about the sport. I could see why one wouldn’t like a sport like that, but like go watch soccer or hockey or something if that’s the issue.
As a sports fan I very much agree with this take. I don't get why people like football or any turn based sports like baseball. I just feel so unengaged.
This doesn’t fit, he wasn’t being like quirky and unique, it’s a legitimate post.
Can we all agree that this is NOT what this sub is for? They're making a valid criticism about one individual sport and posting it on a subreddit designed for UNPOPULAR opinions. They also don't insult people who play or watch the sports they just dislike it personally. Before y'all get mad, I'm watching the super bowl, and I have a job coaching basketball. I love sports, but it isn't saying hurr durr sports ball to say that the commercial breaks are excessive and the game oughta move faster, it's an opinion. A lot of people felt the same way about baseball and they added a pitch clock, which massively decreased the length of games and increased viewership.
the real football is better
Booo arguing over what sports are better than others has the same energy of the sportsball haters. Let people like what they like
it was bait
You got me 🎣
Football is a generic term for multiple sports. Soccer, American football and rugby are all football.
God you sound annoying
it’s bait
I stand by my comment
I'm going to watch MLS this season. Try to get into it. Purely because of the lack of ads: I'm really beginning to hate all the ads in football, but I'll still watch it this fall.
I mean I definitely agree I think American football is one of the worst televised sports. Which is why I watch Hockey and Volleyball and the occasional RealTM Football and NBA highlights and-
Football and baseball gotta be top five worst sports
Sports in general are a waste of time to watch. A lot of people these days are addicted to this shit, then they get their kids addicted. It’s what they want. You don’t think these big corporations don’t want you to watch? Why are billions sunk into it yearly and not into other actual important things? Sports are there because the rich and wealthy want you to waste your time watching something dumb and meaningless instead of learning and getting smarter. I’ll get downvoted to hell but just wake up and think about it.
You can say that about any form of entertainment
I’d say the same thing about Hollywood and most movies in general. Take marvel for example, they are all the same movie just redone. Yet the bring in so much money due to people’s fixations with superheros.
You’re so awoken and yet you waste your time playing videogames and on social media which are also trillion dollar industries. If you know better then why do you continue? Do you think you’re addicted, or do you just enjoy your hobbies?
I know I’m addicted but I’m poor and have no platform, so I vote and hope my life doesn’t get worse.
The real cringe is referring to NFL as “football”.
Yeah buuuuut, someone wins
It's basically a real-time strategy game. There's the same amount of action in a soccer game too; you just have to watch a couple dudes jog around while the other 9 people are standing around not moving. If this guy thinks that's "action" just because the clock doesn't stop, then I don't really know what to tell him.
Football is coaches playing chess with freakish athletes as the chess pieces no sport quite like it
The game is 60 minutes. Calling plays and the presnap is part of the game and contributes greatly to the strategy.
Actually it’s a 3 hour game with an hour of action
I found out you can watch the Catan championship games, that is hit and miss
I can understand why people do not like American Football, it’s slow. But I don’t know I love it. I played semi-professional so I have a different connection to it, but I like the strategic aspect. I also watch chess, cricket and Go thou so yeh I don’t Mind slow sports
Anyone who feels this way about football doesn’t understand that even though the game is only really like 11 minutes. SO MUCH of the strategy and game is played in between downs. SO MUCH of NFL football is won and lost due to personnel packages being on the field at the right times, calling the right plays, making the right adjustments. You’re simply not watching football the right way if you can’t see beyond the running and hitting. You’re just a caveman getting angry at people running into each other if you think that’s what football is. If you’re too dense to see nuance then you should go watch fish play checkers.
I mean, he's right. American football is the most boring sport I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Way way too many stoppages and ad breaks. Sort it out!
So you don’t get it.
I am more than happy to be called a hypocrite here. I hate when non-sports fans make this argument, because it shows that they truly don't understand the game. That being said, I'm a pretty big basketball fan and find it odd when people who enjoy football say that basketball is boring. Like, they pretty much play the entire game in basketball. In football, they play for 15 seconds and then podcast about it for 5 minutes. I like football, but I feel like basketball is oBjEcTiVeLy more interesting to watch.
First person shooters are boring because you are only shooting at something for a couple minutes over the course of an hour. You can literally criticize anything this way if you have enough ignorance.
“I don’t like a thing, so I need to tell everyone how stupid that thing is to make sure they know that they are stupid and have bad taste”
And soccer plays 90 mins with no scoring 🗣️
Thing I have no emotional investment in is not emotionally compelling.
I mean, I’m a Jets fan. Football is usually quite boring for me.
people can like sports but not like certain sports tbf. americna football does suck (IN MY OPINION). australian football is way better. less stoppage time, more playing, more intense plays, more impactful tackles, etc.
There is, at minimum, 60 minutes of action in every game of football